It’s tempting just to replicate all databases in the cloud, but it’s a much better approach to get your data house in order as part of the move. Last week I discussed database normalization as a best ...

Understand the two dimensions of scaling for database query and ingest workloads, and how sharding can make scaling elastic—or not. Scaling throughput and performance are critical design topics for ...

Today's businesses are suffering from a data glut, costing them money. Inadequate and erroneous data is making its way into business systems, preventing accurate billing and hindering growth. To stop ...

Unnamed OpenAI researchers told The Information that Orion (aka GPT 5), the next OpenAI full-fledged model release, is showing a smaller performance jump than the one seen between GPT-3 and GPT-4 in ...

An in-depth commentary on the technical building blocks enabling scaling up and scaling out in modern AI data centers. Generative AI has emerged and grown at a scale and speed that has surprised us ...

Distributed computing is the simultaneous use of more than one computer to solve a problem. It is often used for problems that are so big that no individual computer can handle them. This method of ...

With rising concerns about energy and water management, microbial electrochemical technologies (METs), such as microbial fuel cells, have emerged as promising solutions. However, actual progress in ...